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The Cork Airport entry in Wikipedia has been updated to include that Hemus Air operate a Sofia to Cork route 
Doesn't sound feasible?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_Airport
(Hemus Air's website has no mention of it...)
Doesn't sound feasible?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_Airport
(Hemus Air's website has no mention of it...)
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Just seen Wizzair are introducing a fourth weekly flight to Katowice from December, and this ones an evening flight, not an early morning flight, like the rest. This should prove more popular than the 1am flights.
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Wizzair just have a few extra flights in December and January for the Christmas period.
Indeed, that evening flight has far better times than the regular flights. Pity it's only a temporary measure. Timetables might improve for next summer hopefully...
Indeed, that evening flight has far better times than the regular flights. Pity it's only a temporary measure. Timetables might improve for next summer hopefully...
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Originally Posted by Charlie Roy
The Cork Airport entry in Wikipedia has been updated to include that Hemus Air operate a Sofia to Cork route
Doesn't sound feasible?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_Airport
(Hemus Air's website has no mention of it...)
Doesn't sound feasible?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_Airport
(Hemus Air's website has no mention of it...)
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Lack of walkways
Wait till people get soaked to the skin walking to and from stands 2-5 to the new terminal. Only way around it is to tow aircraft off stands 6-11 when they've off loaded their pax.
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Arrived to new terminal yesterday morning. The terminal is quite nice but services not the best. There were a few elderly people on the flight and they had difficulty negotiating the three flights of stairs from the ramp to arrivals.
There was noboldy to assist them and nobody in the area to ask.
Luggage arrived 47 minutes after we disembarked. I felt sorry for the lady duty manager in the baggage area as she bore the brunt of the pax anger.
She rightly pointed out that Servisair were responsible for baggage handling and she had requested them to try and speed things up. She said that as a Ryanair flight landed 10 mins after our flight then Servisair would not even start on our flight until they had finished with Ryanair.
From my experience baggage delivery seems to be a persistent problem in ORK.
There was noboldy to assist them and nobody in the area to ask.
Luggage arrived 47 minutes after we disembarked. I felt sorry for the lady duty manager in the baggage area as she bore the brunt of the pax anger.
She rightly pointed out that Servisair were responsible for baggage handling and she had requested them to try and speed things up. She said that as a Ryanair flight landed 10 mins after our flight then Servisair would not even start on our flight until they had finished with Ryanair.
From my experience baggage delivery seems to be a persistent problem in ORK.
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Originally Posted by Shanwickman
From my experience baggage delivery seems to be a persistent problem in ORK.
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I have to agree with shanwickman and 840 that Servisair are fairly poor on handling charter flights and baggage in general.
A year or so ago I was on a charter flight and we had to wait on board for 20 minutes because a FR flight arrives before us and they were using the steps!! If that wasn't bad ensough when we finally disembarked our luggage took another 40 minutes as the FR flight had to be unloaded and loaded before we could be reunited with our luggage. This was not the only time that Servisair have kept me waiting for 40 minutes or more for baggage. Incidentaly on that occasion, they managed to put the luggage on the wrong conveyor belt, which only helped the humour of the tired and impatient passengers!
One of the advantages of Cork Airport, was that the time taken from landing to getting into your car in the car park was very short. No walking for endless miles through the terminal, no catching a bus to the car park. It's a pity that baggage handling can ruin that advantage.
A year or so ago I was on a charter flight and we had to wait on board for 20 minutes because a FR flight arrives before us and they were using the steps!! If that wasn't bad ensough when we finally disembarked our luggage took another 40 minutes as the FR flight had to be unloaded and loaded before we could be reunited with our luggage. This was not the only time that Servisair have kept me waiting for 40 minutes or more for baggage. Incidentaly on that occasion, they managed to put the luggage on the wrong conveyor belt, which only helped the humour of the tired and impatient passengers!
One of the advantages of Cork Airport, was that the time taken from landing to getting into your car in the car park was very short. No walking for endless miles through the terminal, no catching a bus to the car park. It's a pity that baggage handling can ruin that advantage.
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The situation with Aer Lingus was interesting enough too last Saturday night as I awaited the arrival of a guest from Barcelona off the EI869 which was a little late not arriving until around 2300 hours.
The EI897 from Faro and the EI875 from Tenerife had both landed between 2240 and 2300 and the EI725 from Heathrow landed some little while later after the Barcelona flight. Some Faro and TFS pax were still coming through and then the EI725 appeared to be unloaded first before the Barcelona flight as lots of London paxed filed through to lanside long before many of the pax from Barcelona.
Granted that Serviceair sometimes lose the plot with some charters if a scheduled flight must be handled first but EI are also a little at sea if a few of their flights arrive very close to each other for handling. Our friend from BCN eventually filed through some time after 2340 with just the one large case. A rather long wait if you have landed at 2300 hours and will the service improve because and as and from today EI are simply aping FR by charging for bags? Have my doubts about that one!
One week to go now before No Return to the old terminal!
The EI897 from Faro and the EI875 from Tenerife had both landed between 2240 and 2300 and the EI725 from Heathrow landed some little while later after the Barcelona flight. Some Faro and TFS pax were still coming through and then the EI725 appeared to be unloaded first before the Barcelona flight as lots of London paxed filed through to lanside long before many of the pax from Barcelona.
Granted that Serviceair sometimes lose the plot with some charters if a scheduled flight must be handled first but EI are also a little at sea if a few of their flights arrive very close to each other for handling. Our friend from BCN eventually filed through some time after 2340 with just the one large case. A rather long wait if you have landed at 2300 hours and will the service improve because and as and from today EI are simply aping FR by charging for bags? Have my doubts about that one!
One week to go now before No Return to the old terminal!
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For years they blamed the outdated old terminal for delays. No such excuses now or are the mutterings about the reduced size of the new terminal beginning to prove correct already. Isn't there a third handler at Cork now so why is everyone sticking with Servisair apart from Spanair and Flightline
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Yes you are correct, Sky Handling are currently handling Spanair and a couple of cargo flts. Was in the new arrivals hall over the weekend and 2 out of the 3 new baggage belts were u/s leaving every pax hanging around the 1 operating baggage belt ..... Welcome to your new building !!
What flights were in at the time? How many flights can one belt take?
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Ryanair's timetable for the for their Cork based aircraft is finalised now. (The times of the Dublin flights have been slightly modified).
Definitely no sign of a second aircraft then
The aircraft is not to be used for the first flight Sunday mornings. I see how that makes economic sense: There wouldn't be 189 pax who would want to fly to Dublin at 0740 on a Sunday morning... So could they use the aircraft for something else: Rather impossible given the short time and how the destination would only have a once a week frequency.
But is it normal then just to leave it unused?
Definitely no sign of a second aircraft then
The aircraft is not to be used for the first flight Sunday mornings. I see how that makes economic sense: There wouldn't be 189 pax who would want to fly to Dublin at 0740 on a Sunday morning... So could they use the aircraft for something else: Rather impossible given the short time and how the destination would only have a once a week frequency.
But is it normal then just to leave it unused?
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ORK - GIB Flights from March '07 ? ?
Just found this on a Gilraltar news website. (ORK-GIB weekly)
"A multi-million pound plan to put Gibraltar on the airline map was unfurled yesterday. A new Gibraltar-based airline is to offer 28 scheduled flights weekly from next March to six destinations in the UK and the Irish Republic.
The airline will have two Boeing 737-300 aircraft, with a seating capacity of 148 passengers each, based at Gibraltar. Each morning they will fly out to different destinations - 11 flights weekly to London Stansted, five to Manchester, four to Bristol, another four to Birmingham, three to Dublin and one to Cork"
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http://www.panorama.gi/localnews/hea...=1290&offset=0
"A multi-million pound plan to put Gibraltar on the airline map was unfurled yesterday. A new Gibraltar-based airline is to offer 28 scheduled flights weekly from next March to six destinations in the UK and the Irish Republic.
The airline will have two Boeing 737-300 aircraft, with a seating capacity of 148 passengers each, based at Gibraltar. Each morning they will fly out to different destinations - 11 flights weekly to London Stansted, five to Manchester, four to Bristol, another four to Birmingham, three to Dublin and one to Cork"
More info at:
http://www.panorama.gi/localnews/hea...=1290&offset=0
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The HEMUS AIR flight to Sofia from Cork has been deleted as well. Interesting to know where that got into the public domain.
If Bulgarians flock to Ireland once they join the EU in January then Sofia flights could become a regular features at Irish Airports.
The pace of change in this business is breathtaking.
If Bulgarians flock to Ireland once they join the EU in January then Sofia flights could become a regular features at Irish Airports.
The pace of change in this business is breathtaking.
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interesting bit on panorama or something last night saying just this point.....however big the polish influx has been, the next wave is romania and bulgaria.....thank heavens for people who work hard and work cheap !
wasn't GB Airways GIB based part of BA ??
wasn't GB Airways GIB based part of BA ??